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More bad news for the US science community (www.usatoday.com)

submitted 1 week ago by UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

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NCAR is not only one of the leaders in climate science, but is an exceptionally important institution for space weather and upper atmosphere modeling. This will be an enormous loss for the scientific community. As someone in the atmospheric and space science community, this decision will have devastating consequences for decades to come.

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[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Billionaire immortality would be the best thing to happen to the world.

[–] lena 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

what

[–] Infinite@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because then they would have to live in it, and would theoretically stop burning it down.

I don't know if "best" feels right, but I can see the upside. Of course, then they'd be immortal overlords, and that probably wouldn't go well either.

[–] lena 3 points 1 week ago

I'd rather get rid of billionaires, but them having to live in the hellscape they are creating would be nice, yeah.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Altered Carbon is a great little sci-fi show that explores what might happen in such a scenario. According to the writer, the slow accumulation of money making money would trend to infinite, leaving a world that makes what we have now look like an egalitarian utopia by comparison.